THE HIPSTER REPORT
Added 2024-03-18 19:15:48 +0000 UTCGraphic design by Anson Nguyen
Video outro by Jak Ritger
Song: Sky Ferreira - Everything's Embarrassing (u_tra remix)
Research chemicals:
1. What Was The Hipster? a collection of essays by N+1
2. You Know It When You See it by Dayna Tortorici
3. What Was The Hipster? by Mark Greif
4. Youth Mode by K-Hole
5. The Still-Wild, Semi-Habitable McKibbin Lofts by Matthew Sedacca
6. How To Live With Bed Bugs by John Wilson
7. Was The Hipster Really All That Bad? by Ben Davis
8. Aziz Ansari's Other Music Sketch (2006)
9. Worker = Hipster by Rob Horning
10. Hooverville Williamsburg by Rob Horning
11. Resenting Hipsters by Peter Frase
12. Williamsburg history timeline by Steven Kurutz
13. Meet Your New Boss by Claudine Ko
14. The Last Relevant Blogger by Brian Merchant
15. Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Whose fault is that? by Paul Tough
16. What's the difference between art, design, and memes? by CRLS / The Hipster Runoff
17. Rock as real estate by Ian Svenonious
18. How NPR Killed College Rock by Ian Svenonious
19. The College Payoff: More Education Doesn’t Always Mean More Earnings by Anthony P. Carnevale, Ban Cheah, Emma Wenzinger
20. What Is Sea Punk Music? by MTV
21. Why The Hipster Must Die by Christian Lorentzen
22. Hipsters and the death of cool by Sarah Barmak
23. Young Artists Find a Private Space, Only Without the Privacy by Cara Buckley
24. The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham
25. Subculture: the meaning of style by Dick Hebdige
27. The Indie Sleaze instagram account
28. Old Vice articles instagram account
29. Pitchfork review of A.R.E. Weapons
30. PROOF (2008) - by moi
31. my interview with CRLS from the Hipster Runoff
Comments
Deleting my entire internet foot print now. Thanks, Brad.
Eric K Han
2024-11-19 06:00:43 +0000 UTC15:23 that little cartoon character is really cute, who drew it?
Yo Mama
2024-09-07 20:25:40 +0000 UTCSo fun 10/10
Erika Braukis
2024-08-11 23:20:34 +0000 UTCThis was so good, thank you. Genuinely a PHD level sociological report lol
Ewe
2024-08-11 09:26:18 +0000 UTChttps://x.com/drew_365/status/1820073955866132733?t=KjSA7Sqnq7sJTsICGN7WFA&s=19 there's a whole discourse on twitter about these photos and about "trying to recreate something authentic" interestingly enough no one is questioning if it has ever been authentic, even at the time.
Zouheir Alameddine
2024-08-08 14:13:50 +0000 UTCTriggered
Christopher Benton
2024-07-20 13:07:31 +0000 UTCWorked at American apparel in Tucson. Got fired. Boss was a five foot four beardo who loved lightning bolt and melt banana
Adam Lehrer
2024-06-22 11:57:53 +0000 UTCWait where's the Millennial Report?!
Alex Omiotek
2024-06-07 00:56:28 +0000 UTCnow everything is embarrassing
irkib
2024-06-03 18:09:25 +0000 UTCI appreciate the self reflection at the end, let the hipster healing begin for us all.
Nathan
2024-05-29 13:04:00 +0000 UTCIts one big fuckn circle
Splat Gorek
2024-05-23 18:24:54 +0000 UTChmm longwinded, reductive and largely stating the obvious in the points that got it right. Brad comes across as guilty of 'the misplaced sense of supeiority' he identifies as the major flaw in hipster sentiment, not much insight in this video, time to unsubsribe.
Coilin O'Connell
2024-05-14 13:11:03 +0000 UTCi can't believe i feel nostalgic for a time period i fucking hated
Vinny Sarcophagus
2024-04-27 21:00:44 +0000 UTCAppreciate the insights as always.
User
2024-04-26 16:22:19 +0000 UTCThis is great, but can you please stop talking about me?
Jennzee
2024-04-15 05:55:40 +0000 UTCyes! I felt the same.
Ross Phillips
2024-04-11 09:10:56 +0000 UTCabsolutely. i think almost all individual and group human phenomena fall into a both/and categorization
dogtorlog
2024-04-10 19:36:10 +0000 UTCYou’re absolutely right. Your comment just made me finally admit that tho they annoy me, I’d rather live around them than in a cookie cutter suburban neighborhood, much like where I’m from.
Adrian Sanchez
2024-04-10 18:56:20 +0000 UTCFantastic report!
Adrian Sanchez
2024-04-10 18:53:07 +0000 UTCThanks Brad that was amazing. Gives me a weird sense of closure.
Will
2024-04-07 23:44:23 +0000 UTCJesus, I didn't realize how much I was a hipster and how much I fit into all these trends over the years (and still now actually). I don't understand how you're able to zoom out and analyze this stuff, it's mind bending how you're able to take such a long view of things and connect them in such an interesting and insightful way. God damn. I feel called out and understood at the same time hahaha, amazing stuff
Greg D
2024-04-06 14:50:46 +0000 UTCThe more interesting things about being a young adult during that time was that everyone both hated hipsters, but still wanted the aesthetic, pop culture, and features of hipster neighborhoods. It’s also interesting still living in the city and knowing people who are in their late 30’s and still living in Brooklyn and doing the same things they were doing 10/15 years ago.
John Culkin
2024-04-05 12:51:28 +0000 UTCGreat piece, fascinating to watch this as someone half a generation younger who is seeing the remnants of hipsterdom and its consequences. Would have been interesting to mention or comment on the current "post-activist" phase of the hipster as seen in the political dimension of the "dirtbag left," but maybe that's more niche than my algorithm would have me believe and is not yet substantive enough to fully analyze. The four years post-2024 election will be an interesting one for the "modern" BedStuy-dwelling hipster. Assuming a Trump victory, will we see a veer back into liberalism as their contrarianism rubs shoulders with open displays of the worst of conservatism, or the shedding of the "hipster" visual aesthetic altogether? Which way, modern man?
Alex kuznetsov
2024-04-04 11:18:24 +0000 UTCthat sky ferreira joint GOES
Andy Cowell
2024-04-03 17:38:04 +0000 UTCI saw a couple clips from this video on Instagram, closed Instagram right away, opened patreon & subbed. I went to school for art. I'm realistic in that I've gotten into construction and art is more of a hobby & side hustle and form of passive income. I was in college during 2008 "in the scene & all that". This video is spot on in.
Trip2TheTop
2024-04-03 16:48:14 +0000 UTCMy wife HATES these videos but idc what she thinks. Maybe I’m kind of a hipster in that way ahahahahahahaha
JS
2024-04-02 14:31:41 +0000 UTCThis is great
Isolde
2024-03-30 20:49:13 +0000 UTCreally good. only 2008 image missing is Foodswings.
marianne
2024-03-30 18:53:14 +0000 UTCof course you are a fan of brad. ive been a fan of yours since tsfeedback.
Human Part
2024-03-30 07:09:33 +0000 UTCThat photo with the blue tank 🤩🤩
Zach Mueller
2024-03-29 18:01:23 +0000 UTCOutro video was astounding
Michael Kelly
2024-03-28 09:36:50 +0000 UTCYeah, if you could just go ahead and post one report a week and charge us 20$ from now on, that would be greaaat, m’kay? Thanks 👍🏼 ☕️
Yes
2024-03-27 21:29:10 +0000 UTC'Stuff White People Like' had a similar analytical lens, but was sharpened for satire & humour. It bit & poked at the unaware hipster in denial. This piece was critical, but not without empathy or affection.
Lord Snake
2024-03-26 00:27:18 +0000 UTCOn point, personal & insightful as always
Lord Snake
2024-03-26 00:23:07 +0000 UTCI'm too young to understand this ❤
Jen Sillen
2024-03-25 01:53:35 +0000 UTCThis video is superb. One of your best. I wish I could easily explain the thesis to my friends, but that’s the thing with well-thought-out cultural criticism: It’s complicated and needs a wholistic zoom-out such as this. (I will suggest in the group-texts that they watch it though)
Sean Preston
2024-03-24 21:43:37 +0000 UTC+1 for the Telling Me What To Do Report but first I want The Explainer Report. Could cover journalism’s crisis with 24h cable news to Vox explainers and Genius annotations, then K-Hole and Brad himself. Then, like the Hipster Runoff sign-off signalled the end of the hipster era, Brad’s report series could end, signifying the end of the explainer era. Then Carles and Brad can be reborn in the What Now Era. Oh god, I’m realizing my comment reeks of parasocial fandom… so Funko Report coded.
theonlyever
2024-03-24 16:24:08 +0000 UTCThis is so good. I was a bit iffy on the transition to activism but you stuck the landing by using it to reflect on habits of superiority and collectivism. That was particularly impactful coming after your point about self-hating gentrifiers realizing that they are themselves the underclass. It’s an unexpectedly hopeful message… maybe elder millennial kooks like yourself can help Gen-Z indie sleaze revivalists speedrun hipsterdom to multiply the force of that awakening.
theonlyever
2024-03-24 16:10:46 +0000 UTCWasn't expecting this one to slap as hard as it did. Another excellent addition to the canon
Cal
2024-03-23 20:21:34 +0000 UTCHow to pronounce Ian Svenonius (American English/US) - PronounceNames.com
Sean Schuster-craig
2024-03-23 19:22:30 +0000 UTCThis cuts so deep
Lutke
2024-03-23 02:42:18 +0000 UTCliterally representation matters
gavi long
2024-03-22 22:54:23 +0000 UTCMe as fuuuck
gavi long
2024-03-22 22:54:03 +0000 UTCHonestly this was so good I am disgusted for having been perceived so clearly. Only thing I would add that was missing here was that it wasn’t just indie rock (although that was the totemic music genre) associated with hipsters. The effect of Napster/internet/streaming was also access to all genres at once. Whereas in previous generations of subcultures you only had finite resources to spend and if you wanted to maintain your e.g. punk credentials, so you had to spend your precious resources on punk 7”s or like zipper pants and manic panic or w/e. Once cultural consumption (at least music) became more or less free, and along with ironic detachment, it allowed hipsters to dip into lots of different genres of music (and thus lifestyles) and blend them together. For me a big part of hipsterdom was always this cultural and temporal hybridization.
Will Luckman
2024-03-22 22:10:26 +0000 UTCyou wouldn't know though its pretty obscure scaruffi-core
Fred
2024-03-22 12:14:55 +0000 UTCcan't believe you included the pop group - y (great album)
Fred
2024-03-22 11:28:01 +0000 UTCplease Do Not watch this at a faster playback speed than 1x. great video tho ! thx brad
HN
2024-03-21 18:48:25 +0000 UTCFantastic as always.
Robin Palmer
2024-03-21 12:51:43 +0000 UTCSo good! As an aging millennial hipster (with a unfinished art degree) I felt so much of this. NGL it definitely made me choke up a bit at the end talking about seeking validation and just reminiscing on the times we had when we were young and free. There's an austerity to our current epoch that is so self effacing, it's nice to think about just having fun again.
Johneeyah goodboy
2024-03-21 04:34:24 +0000 UTCcan’t it be both
Christopher Coté
2024-03-21 02:59:07 +0000 UTCIncredible piece. Chefs kiss. As an early 30something, I was tangentially involved in all eras, some more than others, but all felt like “it” at the time. Like the framework for my understanding of the world was laid before me, and this understanding was immutable. Not only was hipsterdom an aesthetic mode, it was an epistemic mode. My mental construction of the world was strangely part and parcel with the stupid purple v necks I wore
Alex
2024-03-21 00:29:06 +0000 UTCThe immortal science will find you if you don’t find it first…
Alex
2024-03-21 00:20:58 +0000 UTCamazing work!
Super Coconut
2024-03-20 23:15:02 +0000 UTCbrad's most personal video yet. it felt so real
John
2024-03-20 23:14:03 +0000 UTCpoints for the aspect ratio
bnlar
2024-03-20 18:03:09 +0000 UTC👏
J.M.
2024-03-20 17:15:08 +0000 UTCI wonder what’s the next wave? As I am months from my 40th bday, I see myself stepping away from the activist wave and dropping out. My financial issues having less impact on my life (because I spent 18 till now broke as hell) I have been going to nature. Camping, hiking, going to the most remote places I can within my means. Is this my age? Is this the next wave? Is this gentrifying nature? Looking at my phone sucks now, I’d rather walk naked in the woods, or collect rocks on the shoreline.
Bongwater Jones
2024-03-20 12:29:18 +0000 UTChe ate
Conor
2024-03-20 11:19:05 +0000 UTCbrad you snapped with this one
Jordan
2024-03-20 06:48:07 +0000 UTCgreat report, as always! learned a lot. I really need a "telling me what to do" report cause I'm pretty lost. That, or I'll turn to the irrefutable science of Maoism (but I really don't want to start reading). Please don't let it come to that, I've come dangerously close to buying soviet coats since the only way I know how to express myself is though buying stuff and putting on costumes.
Joshua Schwarz
2024-03-20 05:36:30 +0000 UTC👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Adam Garcia
2024-03-20 05:21:01 +0000 UTCanother insightful and thoughtful piece. my only contention being the broad brush with which you paint the "activist era" and the assertion that the hipster anxiety and desire for self-making and individuation was sublimated into performative activism. certainly this is true for some in the so-called activist cohort, especially, as you point out, those whose primary mode of "activism" is consuming and sharing infographics from their phone alone in their apartment. However, there are legions of young and old people alike with an earnest desire to burn this shit hole society to the ground to make way for something better, a society that prioritizes the equitable treatment of all humanity and the joyful connection over shared interests and values you mention at the end of the video. And I assure you that the majority of the aforementioned do not post infographics or spend the majority of their time staring at a phone
LCK
2024-03-19 23:13:32 +0000 UTCThere goes my hero
Al
2024-03-19 16:49:29 +0000 UTCLanded on the perfect outro song well done
Anthony Gorczyca
2024-03-19 16:16:47 +0000 UTCThank you Brad for all your reports. You’re a true cultural anthropologist who helps me understand where we came from and the forces that have affected my life (40 year old, disillusioned graphic designer). In understanding where we’ve been, hopefully we can make better informed paths for this crazy thing called culture. “Culture is not your friend” -Terrance McKenna
Anh Pham
2024-03-19 16:10:58 +0000 UTCNostalgic
nancy lee
2024-03-19 15:46:54 +0000 UTCeverythings embarrassing is such a perfect choice for this.
Peter Jensen
2024-03-19 14:24:39 +0000 UTCCathartic
Trevor Eld
2024-03-19 13:28:42 +0000 UTCwas that vivek?
sebastiaan
2024-03-19 09:58:03 +0000 UTCDid not expect such a generous take this is great feel seen and redeemed
LIL INTERNET
2024-03-19 09:13:26 +0000 UTCdamn why did you do phillip s. hoff like that
Patrick Everman
2024-03-19 06:08:55 +0000 UTC💯❤️🔥
Bryn
2024-03-19 04:51:59 +0000 UTCyoung brad could get it
Cam
2024-03-19 04:08:47 +0000 UTCI love you
Brandon Ross
2024-03-19 03:17:15 +0000 UTCYour best yet
Max Brazier
2024-03-19 03:15:45 +0000 UTCgorilla vs bear blog and the hype machine hit
J
2024-03-19 03:13:53 +0000 UTCHad a couple friends in the photo montage lol
Luke Brown
2024-03-19 03:05:24 +0000 UTCAWESOME!!!
roan collom
2024-03-19 00:59:03 +0000 UTCBrad did this one 4 the culture. Honestly every report is brilliant. Someone send this man a lifetime supply of PBR
Rand Rosenberg
2024-03-18 23:37:33 +0000 UTChit me on my beeper beeper beeper beeper beeper beeper beeper
KT
2024-03-18 23:31:12 +0000 UTCgod tier report
Ronan Delisle
2024-03-18 22:51:16 +0000 UTCshoutout baker
Patrick Everman
2024-03-18 22:18:02 +0000 UTCThis patreon video player makes the video completely unwatchable... just keeps buffering constantly... please go back to youtube videos
Nicholas Ellis-Brown
2024-03-18 22:07:34 +0000 UTCBurn piano island, burn
Alexander Bush
2024-03-18 21:29:09 +0000 UTCSearing indictment. Spot on 💯
Theodore Barrow
2024-03-18 21:13:29 +0000 UTCAre we in the ‘psychedelic era’ of hipster?
Mario Torres
2024-03-18 20:46:17 +0000 UTCwhy did I know K hole would make it in here
Frede
2024-03-18 20:25:39 +0000 UTCOh, I've been watching the new Brad Troemel that just came out... you've probably never heard of him
DP
2024-03-18 20:21:38 +0000 UTCIf only joyless activist knew
Elizaveta Federmesser
2024-03-18 20:21:34 +0000 UTCgood job!
Adam Forkner
2024-03-18 20:11:28 +0000 UTCCommenting on this before it was cool
A White 1993 Camry
2024-03-18 19:52:42 +0000 UTCSo random xD
ja ak rtgr
2024-03-18 19:33:10 +0000 UTCfirst
Mike Knish
2024-03-18 19:23:56 +0000 UTC
